
Optimal Reality Product Designer
- Melbourne, VIC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Flexible work arrangements - work in a way that suits you best. Learn more at
- Rewards platform - your hard work won't go unnoticed at Deloitte.
- Training and development - at Deloitte we believe in investing in our best assets, the people. You will have access to world class training and funding for industry and other professional certifications. You'll also work with wide range of clients, technologies, and methodologies, which will accelerate your learning.
- Support and coaching to progress your career. You will have access to mentors and coaches who will help you pave a path for career progression.
- A culture where we listen to each other and pride ourselves in delivering the best possible outcomes. Most importantly, we love to have fun.
- Design and prototype end-to-end user experiences across web and immersive platforms
- Translate complex system models, live data streams, and AI agent outputs into simple, actionable visual interfaces.
- Create wireframes, interaction flows, high-fidelity mockups, and design specs aligned with user needs and business outcomes.
- Lead and facilitate user research sessions, design sprints, and usability testing to validate design hypotheses.
- Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure designs are implemented faithfully and responsively.
- Define and contribute to a design system tailored for the Optimal Reality platform, supporting modularity and scalability.
- Advocate for accessibility, usability, and human-centered design across all touchpoints.
- Help shape the overall product vision, roadmap, and design strategy in partnership with product and engineering leads.
- Present concepts and solutions to client stakeholders, often including operational, engineering, or executive audiences.
Optimal Reality is Deloitte's advanced Digital Twin platform. We help organisations in asset intensive industries to use data and digital technologies to visualise, understand, control and optimise their network-based operations in real time. Being part of the Optimal Reality team is a unique opportunity to be part of an outstanding team creating a world-class technology platform delivering solutions for clients in Australia and beyond.We ingest multiple data sources, processing millions of messages an hour and present this in real time to operators to improve their decision making and ultimately make our cities smarter and lives easier. We use computer vision and other AI/ML to improve our understanding of what's happening and we use simulation and prediction techniques to optimise for the best possible outcome.Our back end languages include Golang, Julia and Python. We use GraphQL in the BFF layer and our front end applications are built with React and Javascript and uses DeckGL. We're a full stack team with skills across front end, back end, data and devops.Obsessed with speed, and grounded in Formula One thinking, we have a clear focus on finding new and better ways of ingesting, processing, and predicting, live data to create smarter and greener cities through digital twins of transport networks, new energy systems and across supply chains - building applications to help operational staff to improve their ability to collaborate, and make the best decisions to optimally control the network.Our team is smart, passionate, loves what they do and has fun while they do it. An amazing opportunity to make an impact that matters with high profile clients - be a part of one of the fastest growing teams.Enough about us, let's talk about you.You are a highly motivated individual with:Essential skills:
- 4+ years of experience in product, UX, or interaction design with a portfolio demonstrating data-rich applications or complex system interfaces.
- Proficiency with industry-standard design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch) and prototyping tools (e.g., Principle, Framer).
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, responsive design, and accessibility standards (WCAG).
- Experience collaborating within agile product development teams alongside engineers, analysts, and product managers.
- Ability to design for data-heavy applications-dashboards, control systems, simulations, or digital operations platforms.
- Strong storytelling and communication skills to advocate for design excellence and user value.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced consulting or client delivery environments with shifting priorities.
- Experience designing for digital twin platforms, simulation environments, or 3D visualization tools (e.g., CesiumJS, Unity, Unreal).
- Exposure to AI/ML products, agentic interfaces, or LLM-integrated UIs (e.g., chat-based agents, scenario assistants).
- Understanding of spatial UX, temporal interfaces, or human-machine interaction in high-complexity domains.
- Familiarity with enterprise systems and B2B workflows